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For a few years, U.S. healthcare spending seemed to be under control, rising no faster than the economy as a whole. The proportion of our GDP spent on healthcare was flatter than a Nebraska cornfield in November. Here’s how much we spent on healthcare, relative to the economy as a whole, between 2009 and 2013:

2009: 17.3% of GDP

2011: 17.3% of GDP

2013: 17.2% of GDP

That’s a historically low rate of healthcare inflation. But much of that flattening resulted from the great recession that started in 2008. And now, it looks like healthcare spending is once again on the rise, already equaling 17.8% of GDP.

For the last couple years, in fact, healthcare expenditures have risen faster than our GDP. Here’s a picture of that rise, with healthcare spending shown as NHE (or national healthcare expenditures):

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Spending growth wasn’t equal across all parts of healthcare, of course. Consider the following numbers, on the growth of healthcare spending in 2015:

Medicare: 4.5%

Private insurance: 7.2%

Medicaid: 9.7%

Uninsured: -17.9%

Spending from Medicaid and private insurers grew faster than Medicare because of the millions of people obtaining coverage under the Affordable Care Act.